2017 at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring

2017 has been a huge, productive and exciting year for everyone at MDWg. We’re extremely proud of the achievements made by Language Workers, the Language Nest team, and the organisation as a whole. We’ve compiled some of our favourite photos to recap the year- we hope you enjoy it!

Take a look at some of the highlights:

The Mirima Dancers at the Kimberley Moon 2017

Our Country Ivanhoe Crossing — Ivanhoe Crossing at dusk; image by Jawun Secondee Sarah Glanville

Language Documentation Archiving — Filming with Miriwoong Elder, Agnes Armstrong

Certificate II in Indigenous Leadership graduation

Rosemary, Rita and Rozanne with the Language Nest book ‘Gooloo-gooloob Yarroondayan’

Language Classes for the Community — The Yeehaa Rangers after a Miriwoong class

The MDWg Team with Karla Hart, Indigenous dancer, writer and actor

Rita Boombi accepts the Outstanding Organisation award on behalf of MDWg at the East Kimberley Aboriginal Achievement Awards in August

A Miriwoong Lexicon for All — Jimmy Paddy, Emily Gref and Glennis Galbat-Newry with the Miriwoong Public Dictionary

Interpretive Signage — Miriwoong signage welcoming visitors to Kununurra was installed at the Kununurra Airport earlier this year

Cultural Awareness Training — Senior Miriwoong community members David Newry and Button Jones.

Some members of the Language Nest team showing off their new uniforms

Jawun Secondee Emily Kendall on her last day at MDWg after helping out for 6 weeks in October-November

We wish all of our supporters a wonderful holiday season, and look forward to sharing with you our work and progress in 2018! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to receive regular updates of our work. You can also visit our GiveNow page to support our programs that are working to keep the Miriwoong language alive for future generations.

Warany, ngoondengi benewoo! (Okay, all the best!)

Mirima-Staff